EXCLUSIVE: Tatum Talks Ryan O'Neal, Young Hollywood

July 10, 2007 07:46 PM EDT

Tatum ONeal and her father Ryan celebrated side by side, smiling at the 30th anniversary of their film Paper Moon, almost four years ago. These days, such joviality is not a scene youre likely to see.

I hope that he does apologize to me but I’m not gonna hold my breath, Tatum told Access in Part 2 of our interview with the Rescue Me star.

Tatum has however reconciled with her fathers longtime girlfriend Farrah Fawcett, who continues to battle cancer. When asked if mending that relationship has helped strengthen ties with her father, Tatum looked away and sighed.

No, she said. But thats ok.

Tatum and Ryan ONeal have been estranged for years. In 2001, Tatum alleged to Access Hollywood she suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of Ryan.

You didn’t want to leave no eggs in the house, you didn’t want to be too noisy, didn’t want to wake him before 11, she said.

Ryan denies the allegations.

I wish him the best, she told Access in our new interview. I dont know about the happy endings all the time. Maybe for me to be the woman that I am, I cant have a happy ending with him. I dont know.

It was a very happy beginning. Tatum won an Oscar for Paper Moon at the age of 10, but underlying parental problems in her youth put her in the same boat as a few starlets of today and often, just staying focused is a challenge itself.

[Fame] — it is fleeting, Tatum said. It’s not forever and the money goes and the fame goes and then you have to ask yourself what do you have, you know?”

These days, Tatum has a flammable TV career as she brings more sex and scandal to this seasons Rescue Me. And, the actress notes, she uses her mother, Joanna Cook, as her characters inspiration.

I often say my mother was a very big character and she liked to smoke and drink and she was bigger then life and had a wig and smoked a cigarette, Tatum said. So I will often drop into my mother a little bit.

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